Elastic horseshoe.



F. D. VlELALE.v

ELASTIC HORSESHOE APPLICATION FILED rmms, 1 911.

1,000,215. Patented Aug. 8,1911.

mitnwaw COLUMBIA PLANOCIIAPH 60., WASHINGTON. D. C

UNTTED STATES PATENT @FFTCE.

FARLEY D. VEALE, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

ELASTIC HORSESHOE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, F ARLEY D. VEALE, citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Elastic Horseshoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to horse shoes, and pertains especially to the class of elastic or cushion shoes adapted to be applied direct to the hoof of a horse, as distinguished from the elastic or cushion, pads, plates, or shoes usually applied to the ordinary metal shoes.

The object of the invention is to provide in a cushion horse shoe, a skeleton like metal core or form on which is molded a body of rubber with a leather base in such manner and form as to form a complete shoe ready to be applied to the hoof of a horse.

A further object of the invention is to provide a skeleton form for holding therein and thereto a body of rubber and a leather plate or cover so that only the portion of the form having nail holes therein is exposed in the finished shoe.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a rubber shoe molded in such shape or form as to be vulcanized through a shoe skeleton with a leather plate or cover for the inner face of the shoe, such plate being nailed (in a shoeing operation) against the hoof and the tread of the shoe is composed of a continuous body of rubber or other suitable elastic material.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this application: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a horse shoe embodying the invention, looking at the tread face of the shoe. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the skeleton shoe-form attached to a leather plate in condition to have the rubber molded or vulcanized thereto. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the rubber shoe looking at its inner face. Fig. 1 is a section on the line wa2, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a similar view on the line y-y, Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a similar view on the line 2z, Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a plan view of the heel portion, partly broken away, showing a modification.

The same reference numerals denote the same parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

From practical experience I have found that a most effective shoe is one composed, as far as possible, in its entirety of one solid mass or body of rubber or like elastic ma- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 18, 1911.

Patented Aug. 8, 1911. Serial No. 609,306.

terial, and in order to produce the same, I have devised a special skeleton shoe or form of such novel and peculiar shape as to afford means for holding such elastic body thereto, while the latter is vulcanized to a leather or other fabric hoof-plate.

The skeleton shoe form is composed of the usual shoe or other metal and comprises a toe 1, having a central brace-lug 2 beveled from the face edge of the toe to the toeplate 3, such toe having ends 41 which are inclined inwardly toward each other so that the space between the inner portion of said ends is less than the space between the outer portion of said ends so as to form a Wedge shaped space. divided by the lug 2, for the reception of the toe body of the rubber shoe. Side flanges 5 are flush with and project from the inner edge of the skeleton shoeplate, and are joined to or are made contiguous with the said ends 4:, and each of the said flanges terminates in a projection 6 extending across the outer face of the shoeplate to the outer edge of the latter, leaving a portion of such plate having nail holes 7 therein, exposed and readily accessible for driving the shoe nails. The shoe plate is extended rearwardly from the projection 6 and such extensions have at each end or heel 7 thereof an opening or passage 8 therethrough for the reception of a portion of the rubber shoe in vulcanizing the latter to a leather hoof-plate 9, which is secured to the inner face of the skeleton shoe by means of rivets 10, so as to hold the same together during the process of molding or vulcanizing the rubber shoe in position. This construction off-sets the nails at a considerable distance from the shoe-tread.

The elastic or rubber shoe 11, has upon its inner face a pair of elastic or rubber toe portions 12 which fit the wedge-shaped space of the skeleton toe, and said rubber toe is swelled or thickened, and is flanged over the outer edge of the skeleton toe to cover and protect it. A flange 13 projects from each side of the rubber shoe so as to cover the side flanges of the skeleton or metal shoe, and the heel portions of the rubber shoe are swelled or thickened and have concavities 14 for the heel portions of the metal shoe, and such cavities surround lugs or bodies of rubber 15 of this shoe, and such lugs fit the openings 8 of the metal shoe, and such lugs 15 with the heels 16 of the rubber shoe and body portion 17 of this shoe are vulcanized to the leather hoof-plate. The outer sides of the rubber shoe have lateral flanges 18 which cover the projections 6 of the skeleton or metallic shoe.

Referring to the modification shown in Fig. 7, the heel portions 19 of the rubber shoe are joined together by a cross body of rubber 20, so as to form a closed shoe.

It is obvious that the shoe is applied with the leather plate next to the hoof of a horse, and the shoe is nailed on in the usual manner.

It will be seen that only the nailing portion of the metallic shoe is exposed; that the whole tread is a solid mass of rubber and forms a uniform support for the weight of a horse, and prevents slipping; that by rea son of the metallic side flanges, the nail heads are removed from the shoe tread so that they will not become worn, and that in the event of the nails becoming loose the three parts comprising the whole shoe will notbecome loosened or separated from each other.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A horse shoe comprising a metal shoeshaped core or form having side flanges projecting from the lower face thereof flush with the inner edge thereof, the front end of said flanges being connected with the toe and such flanges terminating at the rear of the form in lateral flanges extending from the inner to the outer edge of the form, a body of shoe-shaped rubber fitting over and between all of said flanges and forming the tread of the shoe, and a leather shoe-shaped hoof-plate secured to the inner face of the metal form and having said body of rubber vulcanized thereto so as to inclose the heel portions of the metal form and to fill the space between the hoof-plate and the edge of the said side flanges.

2. The combination, with a metal shoeshaped form having heels with an opening therethrough and a pair of wedge-shaped toe spaces, side flanges projecting from the inner edge of said form and terminating in lateral flanges, and a leather hoof-plate secured to the inner face of such plate, of a rubber shoe having a continuous edge flange overlapping all of said flanges and the toe, a pair of rubber projections fitting said toe spaces, a concavity in each heel portion of the rubber shoe for the reception of the heels of the metal form, and a pair of rubber lugs projecting from the heels of the rubber shoe through the heel openings of the metal form, said lugs, rubber heel portions and the body of rubber between the said side flanges be ing vulcanized to the hoof-plate.

3. A. metallic skeleton shoe for holding rubber shoes, comprising a toe having converging ends, a central toe-brace forming with said ends wedged-shaped toe spaces, cross flanges adjacent the heel portions of such shoe, side flanges projecting from the inner edge of and at right angles to the lower face of said shoe and connecting the said toe ends with the cross flanges, and an opening in the heels of said shoe for certain portions of the rubber shoe.

4. A rubber shoe having a continuous edge flange flush with the tread face of the shoe and extending from the one to the other of the heel portions of the shoe, concavities extending from the rear ends of the flange into said heel portions on the upper face of the shoe, lugs flush with said upper face and surrounded by the concavities, and a pair of too pieces of less thickness than the lugs and the body of the shoe projecting from the upper face of the shoe, said flange being set in at the sides of the shoe so as to leave an opening between the toe and heel portions of the shoe, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

FARLEY D. V EALE.

Vitnesses F. G. lZ-lAssn'r'r, WM. ARTZ."

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